topic Re: Delete overlapping text in AutoCAD Forum

topic Re: Delete overlapping text in AutoCAD Forum https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/delete-overlapping-text/m-p/5596852#M332920 Hi, BIG thanks to all who have replied. Unfortunately, still not the solution that I am after. OVERKILL, I believe looks for entirely coincident items. IE when they are on top of one another completely. Correct me if I am wrong. TSPACEINVADERS, appears to highlight all overlapping text. The user still has to make the decision which to delete. This would be the same as manually searching through the drawing visually, as I see it. TXTOVERLAP, appears to also just highlight the items. I can't seem to work out how to use this to delete the text or for it to do it automatically. The solution as I see it and as Kent1cooper has suggested, is for Acad to automatically search the drawing for overlaps of the text boundaries. They are not multi-line text, so should be easier. The actual text entry is not relevant. Any overlap of the bounding box would count. As mentioned, I think that a weighting table would be required to provide the decision as to what is deleted in preference to another. Ideally, the associated '+' would also be deleted based upon the insert point of the text, but I guess that this is something to look at further later. Is this something that anyone has written or can be written as a challenge perhaps?.. 🙂 I attach a 'before' and 'after' screen shot for reference. Once again, many thanks in advance. Rroger_D Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:43:06 GMT Anonymous 2015-04-17T12:43:06Z